Small Travel Play/Dolls House.

This is a small cardboard play dolls house.

• Small enough to carry.
• The back is open to place the toy figures.
• Approx. 9" x 6" x 6". (230mm x 150mm x 150mm)
• A home for those little pocket type toys.
• 1-1/4" High Figures. (30mm)

Simple to make from old corrugate cardboard boxes.

• This is made from 2.5mm thick corrugate cardboard.

I cut this using a laser cutter, but there is no reason you can cut it out using a small precision knife. (just takes longer and patience)

2.5mm Corrugate Cardboard.

• I got mine from an old box.

The treads are made from plain 0.5mm thick cardboard.

Laser Cutter, will make this project easy.

• If you don't have a laser cutter, a sharp precision knife and straight edge will do.

Glue.

• I use PVA. Any glue will do.

I have attached CAD drawings in DXF format for all the panels.

• If cutting with a laser I have a program that will convert the files into G-Code.
• Tim's XY Plotter: Tim's XY Stepper Controller (tims-xy-plotter.blogspot.com)
• Or you can use whatever you use with your machine.

If you don't have a laser cutter.

• Autodesk | 3D Design, Engineering & Construction Software
• If you are not a student there are other open source apps. like LibreCAD - Free Open Source 2D CAD
• You could use AutoCAD to print out the drawings and overlay them on the card to cut with a Knife.
• You need to print the drawings with a CAD application, the images above are just for viewing.

Numbers:

• 1 x Ground.dxf
• 2 x Inner.dxf
• 1 x Inner_Loft.dxf
• 2 x Floor.dxf
• 1 x Front.dxf
• 1 x Back.dxf
• 1 x Roof_Back.dxf
• 1 x Roof_Front.dxf
• 2 x Side.dxf
• 2 x Stair.dxf
• 2 x Treads.dxf

This is the way it is designed to go together.

• If you find it easier to do it in an other order feel free to do so.

The first step is to build the stairs.

• The Treads are made from folded card (0.5mm).
• Fold the treads along the creases in alternate directions.
• The bends want to end up at 90 degrees.

Do the following for both floors, there is a stair on the ground floor and one on the first floor.

• Glue the Stair.dxf to the inner.dxf as shown.
• Glue the folded Treads.dxf to the Stairs.dxf

Glue one of the Stair and inner assemblies to the Ground.dxf as shown.

Glue one of the Side.dxf to the Ground.dxf as shown.

Glue one of the Floor.dxf to the Side.dxf and Inner.dxf as shown

Glue one of the Stair and inner assemblies to the Floor.dxf as shown.

Glue the other Floor.dxf to the Side.dxf and Inner.dxf as shown

Glue the other Side.dxf to the Ground.dxf and the two Floor.dxf as shown.

Glue the Back.dxf to the Ground.dxf, the two Floor.dxf and the two Side.dxf as shown.

Glue the Front.dxf to the Ground.dxf, the two Floor.dxf and the two Side.dxf as shown.

Glue the Inner_Loft.dxf assemblies to the top Floor.dxf as shown.

Glue the Front_Roof.dxf to the two Side.dxf as shown.

Glue the Back_Roof.dxf to the two Side.dxf as shown.

Give to a young child to play with.

• You could also assist a child to assemble once you had cut the parts.
• I suppose painting could be fun thing to do with a young child next.

I did some drawings of figures.

• If you have a laser cutter, these will be easy to cut.
• It may be difficult to cut by hand out of corrugate cardboard, but out of normal card should be doable.